How Voters Made Seattle Less Democratic (and a Traffic Nightmare)

Americans were seduced into wanting cars, and now it's too late to go back.by Charles Mudede
In Los Angeles Plays Itself, film critic and historian Thom Andersen explains that the noir classic Chinatown provides a purely fictional account of California's Water Wars in the early years of the 20th century. The movie has lots of unsolved murders, some secret cabal operating in the shadows, and a satanic capitalist pulling the darkest of strings and running a diabolic land/water scheme (his artifici